Ezekiel 16:17
You took the fine jewels of the gold and silver that I gave you, and you made for yourself male figures, and you did with them as a prostitute would do.
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18You took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you set my oils and perfumes before them.
Cross References
Exodus 32:1When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Come, make us an idol that will go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.”
Isaiah 57:7You prepared your bed on a high mountain; 1 you also went up there to offer sacrifices. 1
Jeremiah 3:9Her prostitution was nothing to her; she defiled the land, and she committed adultery with stones and trees.
Ezekiel 16:11Next I adorned you with jewelry, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain around your neck.
Hosea 2:13I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals, 1 when she burned incense to them, 1 when she adorned herself with her rings and jewelry, 1 and she went after her lovers and forgot me— 1 this is Yahweh's declaration.” 1
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 16:16-35
Ingratitude of Israel; Shameful Idolatry of Israel. ( b. c. 593.) 15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was. 16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. 17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest… Read the whole commentary →